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Author: Joseph C. Benedyk  
Company: Light Metal Age, Illinois Institute of Technology  
Issue #: Vol. 67, No. 3  
Year: 2009  
Pages: 7  
  
Summary:   
This article looks at the opening of of Alexin LLC, the newest greenfield aluminum extrusion billet casthouse in North America. The plant's environmental features are listed and a tour of its operations is described, including the melting and holding furnace operations, alloying and melt preparation for casting, DC casting ala Wagstaff, homogenization of DC cast billet logs, and sawing and packing. The article also discusses casthouse training and continuous improvement, quality assurance and management, and the company's source-to-source extruder/supplier network.

Product Code: art-00211